Turkish kofte and mashed potatoes are shown; it's unclear what kind of meat was served at the dinner party. (Wikimedia Commons/E4024)

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You can forgive friends of the Erdal family if they skip the next dinner invitation. After four members of the family in northern Turkey suffered food poisoning severe enough to land them in a hospital for a week, they decided to throw a "gratitude dinner" to celebrate their recovery. Two dozen attendees fell ill from ... you guessed it. "Food poisoning became our nightmare," patriarch Alattin Erdal tells the Hurriyet Daily News. The Erdals had sacrificed an animal (the type was not disclosed) to thank God for their recovery and served it to their friends.

"We don’t get it," Erdal says. "First we were poisoned and then sacrificed an animal for God as a sign of gratitude for gaining our health back," only to have 25 people end up at a hospital in Tekirdag province, with four in intensive care, per Hurriyet. The Erdals were initially sickened after a meal cooked by matriarch Asiye Erdal, who now she says she'll be more careful in the kitchen.

Just maybe your god doesn't like it when you needlessly slaughter innocent animals..... hmmmm?

$82496178

Aug 27, 2016 2:19 PM CDT

A few basic sanitary protections are in order. Hand washing with hot water and soap, kitchen surfaces and utensils disinfected, drinking water tested, and sources of food checked for contamination. Common sense, not God, is what's missing here.

fedup taxpayer

Aug 27, 2016 10:55 AM CDT

a billion people who were told until recently that it was against their religion to use toilet paper and used one had to rub stones on their rears... what a bunch of goat humping savages. Hoping more of them dont make the quantum leap to toilet paper and they suffer greatly. Islam...doing nothing for the human race except pain and death since its establishment.. and much more to come.